ESSAY XI. ON SITTING FOR ONE’S PICTURE
From The New Monthly Magazine, No. 35, Vol. VIII., 1823, ‘Table Talk, IX.’
[107]. The beggar in the street. The Author himself painted a small portrait in oils of a poor old woman whom he met near Manchester in 1803. [W. C. H.]
[108]. When he sat to me. In 1804, when the sitter was in his 67th year, and Unitarian Minister at Wem in Shropshire.... The picture is still in a fair state of preservation. [W. C. H.]
[109]. The late Mr. Opie. John Opie (1761–1807), historical painter.
Invisible or dimly seen. Paradise Lost, V. 157.
[111]. The Bunburys. See vol. VI. Mr. Northcote’s Conversations, note to p. 454.
Happy alchemy of mind. Cf. vol. V. Lectures on the English Poets, note to p. 107.
Vandyke married a daughter of Earl Gower. He married, about 1639, Maria Ruthven, granddaughter of the first Earl of Gowrie. See Conversations of James Northcote, R.A., with James Ward, p. 92, where Northcote is reported as wroth with Hazlitt for having given the Earl’s name as Cowper. The change from Cowper to Gower, as given in the present text, is because of an erratum-direction to that effect behind the ‘Contents of the First Volume,’ in the original edition.
A painter of the name of Astley ... Lady ——. John Astley, portrait-painter (?1730–1787), married Lady Daniell. See Redgrave’s Dictionary.